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Kyle 1 year ago

Morning ranters and Happy Friday. So I was listening to the podcast this week and their “favorite” superhero movie of the year was being discussed. Now I am not starting a DC vs Marvel vs Fox war. But it made me realize, there is something awesome to look forward to in all aspects.

Fox: starting their universe and correcting their ways with DOFP

Marvel: Phase 2 looks promising. Even if you didn’t like the twist in IM3, Marvel has a very fun format going right now.

DC: The Supes vs Bats movie in 2015 leading to more of the DC universe.

Regardless, this guy is excited for all of this comic book movies. GOOD DAY!

Not just comic book geek… just an awesome time time to be a geek in general! Proof: Multi-media revival of Star Wars soon to come, Star Trek going strong, sci-fi as a whole making a comeback, the Hobbit, etc, etc

I’m going to laugh hysterically if it turns out something happened Robot Chicken style and Palpatine is alive. Don’t do it JJ. Keep him dead. Bring back the same dude for flashbacks and what not, sure.

How does the idea of “the Empire LIVES” resonate amongst the Star Wars fanatics?

I mean, the rebels won because the Emperor was in the ship when it blew, right? Those were the rules?

Im getting more and more fond of the underdog choice casting rumors like Orlando Bloom and still my favorite, Zach Quinto. They have the acting chops… but can they physically turn into the caped crusader?

Exactly what happened to me when I started watching it. I watched the first 5 or so episodes and thought it was just way too melodramatic, specifically the romance (I blame the CW). I gave it another shot because of the positive comments coming from ScreenRant regulars and the show definitely picks up by the middle of the season. I’d give the second half of the season an 8/10, the first few episodes would have to be 5/10 for me. You still have to push through some melodrama (not much in the second half), but I’d say it’s worth it.

I agree, you should. As much as you love superheroes and comicbooks, I think you owe it to yourself to check it out.

Now here is fair warning, (and anybody that has watched the show from the begining can verify this), don’t give up on it in the first half of the first season. As much as I love that show, I’ll be honest, it was still finding it’s sea legs at that point, but from mid-first season until the end of the first season, it was great. It’s still a CW show, but even with that, it was still great.

I’ll verify this. While I don’t think the first half was as horrible as people say it was definitely obvious that the show was still finding itself. I’m happy to say that it did and it had a very satisfying, surprising, and unique season finale.

In general, it hits a very good stride when the Dark Archer is introduced at the halfway point. Personally, I think it hits its stride just before that with the Helena Bertinelli arc but I know many people didn’t really like that arc or her.

@stark,
i dont see why they cant be incorporated into the dccu. just a brief news clip while someone is wathcing the news about the destruction of metropolis. never have to mention anyone by name [supes,zod,] and leave it at that. if they ever do a JL then he could work in it, but all the other shows/films are their stand-alone thing. no need to force feed unecessarey cross-overs. maybe once have some guest appearance. could even have cavill show up just as clark, and maybe he helps ollie in someway, but never lets on that he’s superman. if they could do something like that by s3 or 4 of arrow, then it would tie in to any jl film down the road. same with the flash show.

Has anybody watched the improv-comedy western Quick Draw on Hulu? It’s one of their new original programs and it is hilarious. The actors improv their lines so they have a lot of clips with outtakes. Very funny stuff.

Here’s a film that’s been delayed for three years and finally has its wide release on 29th of August! It was the most successful movie in Belgium ever (small country in Europe) and having seen the original, it is pretty great!
Story is awesome, twists are pretty good and it really keeps you guessing until the end which to me isn’t something very common these days!

And fyi, here’s a Carl Urban showing a real Bruce Wayne-side of his acting abilities! Not that he’s my top choice, but it does show he could be a serious candidate.

Not to mention how WB/DC being to serious with the edgier & gritty realism of their universe. Make me wonder how heroes & villains will play out outside the Justice League core members & beyond their film. Some character imo seem too awkward to be on film in the tone Znyder,Nolan & Goyer set things up.

I dont get that statement at all. All you have to do is take s*** seriously and treat every character seriously that is easy to do. Every dc hero has demons and conflicts and that is what WB plans to ecplot

As we were just talking about above — None of us really knew of different companies for comics. For all we knew, Iron Man and Superman could appear in the same story and it would be fine. We only know the difference because CB’s and CBM’s are our passion. That’s not the collective world. 3 years after Batman heroically saves Gotham again and somehow dodges a nuke, he appears on screen with Superman… and has a total amnesia lapse of events that literally JUST HAPPENED.

The Avenger said it very well. And I respect TDK trilogy as so. A closed book. But were not the collective world. We are a few nerds/fans in the bunch.

I’m with you on the continuity factor, but I would still prefer a diffrent Batman than The Dark Knight version. I’d like a smarter, more genius level Bats; one that brings out his mind and his invention and detective skills. The Dark Knight Bats just wasn’t like that IMO. I also would like a Bats without a lisp or a silly voice. I’m very much looking forward to a “new” Karl Urban….ah…er… I mean Batman.

A great point to be made if the story was to continue is that NOW we have a Batman who had his origin, has fought 5 villians, over a decade of lessons and experience, and has realized that his grunting has caused him to grow a possible tumor in his throat.

Likewise, I want a different Batman. While I liked Nolan’s Batman, he wasn’t as impressive as he could have been.

I’d like to see the genius side of him which I don’t think Nolan’s Batman had much of, especially highlighted in DKR.

My reasons being Alfred had more insight into the criminal mind than Batman in DK when he had to explain to Bruce that perhaps he didn’t know the Joker as well as he thought. Even when Batman went to interview the Joker, he just basically said to him you’re just a murderer and petty thief, seemed kind of a shallow psychological evaluation and bad interrogation tactics, not really Batman-esque. My point is Batman from comics and cartoons sorta has this psychological acumen into the criminal mind. He tries to know how they think and why.

Another reason is that he wasn’t as good a detective, even after 8 yrs or however long he was out of commission. Blake displayed (I would argue extremely unrealistically) more of a detective mind than anyone, including a possibly 20 to30+ yr detective, i.e. Gordon, when he told Bruce that he knew he was Batman, that was a huge wtf and facepalm moment to me, but eh. The little ballistic thing and irradiated bills thing didn’t really demonstrate a detective/keen mind to me, just sorta fancy gadgets he had available to him that police budgets didn’t. It didn’t involve the use of his mind too much, not a whole lot of deduction demonstrated to me; he needed Lucius to help evaluate the fragments anyways.

Yes, he did display some tech know-how, the sonar cell thing to every cell in Gotham and fixing the auto-pilot, but the large bulk of the engineering and building had already been done by Lucius and the Wayne research department. He hadn’t really done anything of his own. Did he have his own tracking devices? I can’t recall.

There’s more reasons I could state, but I’ll stop. I just think Batman could be more than Nolan’s Batman, he is supposed to be a genius after all.

C’Mon Bob. You are older and wiser than I am. You should know that everyone lies.

Robert Palmar 1 year ago

Bob? Who’s that? It be Rock here

Not everyone lies. I think Goyer was speaking the truth.
If Bale ever did return after saying that, it would be
Goyer was given new marching orders to do so.
And I do think the likelihood of that is nil.

LC 1 year ago

Okay, so maybe not everyone lies… but not telling the truth or “pleading the 5th” is just as bad.

If he is told to do a rewrite… then so be it. He isn’t lying. But he is just a pawn in a bigger game.

Robert Palmar 1 year ago

I think his original MOS 2 script draft did
not even include Batman and obviously
that has changed from the first intent.

Patrick Bayard 1 year ago

@ Adrian

Things can change especially if it meant more money for WB (which it would) if they link the Dark Knight movies. I think it all depends of getting Bale back into the role.

I wondered if the rumor about WB willing to pay Bale to be in Batman/Superman for what was it, $50,000 or something? For 20 minutes? I hope would be false. Id say that would be a waste of money on WB’s part.

I think it was completely false. If you check out the original source, the writer wasn’t even stating it as fact. If I remember correctly, it was more of a what if scenario. Plus, it’s from an eBook written by an unknown aha.

I thought it was false at first but thus far neither the WB nor Bales reps have denied it. The Hugh Jackman and the Orlando Bloom stories have already been discredited officially. The longer I don’t hear a denial about Bale the more I think it might be true…and I think if that is the going rate (ie that is what Robert Downey Jr. is getting), then it is money well spent although I would have him on screen for more than 20 minutes.

I’m an avid believer that Nolan’s Batman trilogy had a beginning, a middle and an end, and imo it was done wonderfully, so having that story without an end, and then taking that main character (Batman) and putting him in a fracnhise where he doesn’t belong…. not a fan

I know it’s a hypothetical question, but I’m really happy with what WB is doing right now. TDK trilogy was a great standalone venture, MOS was epic, and a sequel featuring a new, more comic book-y Batman is this fan’s dream come true.

I just hope WB has a bit more in store for us beyond MOS2/World’s Finest…. i.e. JUSTICE LEAGUE!!!!!!!!

Exactly my thought, Batman Begins and The Dark Knight are perfect launching points for a Justice League film. While I don’t regret Dark Knight Rises happening (I loved the movie), having Man of Steel connected to Begins and The Dark Knight would’ve been amazing. Then again, if Dark Knight Rises didn’t happen, I don’t think we would even have Man of Steel. Goyer brought up the idea for Man of Steel when they were taking a break from writing the story of Dark Knight Rises.

I just think WB/DC would be in a better position to combine the Bale Batman with Man of Steel had Batman not been displayed the way he was in TDKR. TDKR leaves me with the impression that Bruce Wayne would just concede to Superman. He would just stare at him with his mouth open behind the cowl the way he does everything else.

Finished watching the Riches last night and I gotta say Eddie Izzard and Minney Driver were on freaking point in that show. Damn shame writer’s strike got that canceled prematurely, but in retrospect the strike is probably responsible for the ‘golden age’ of tv we’re currently experiencing.

I’m enjoying Batman Year Zero, and the current Trinity War story arc from DC.

Haven’t started on Infinity yet, although I have noticed that it’s being referenced in many other titles like GotG and Avengers. I’m hoping it’ll be a better “event” than Marvel’s other (read: terrible) efforts as of late. AOU, AvsX, Fear Itself…. all horrible imo.

Also, Vader, if you’re not reading the new ‘Star Wars’ run by DH, I have only one thing to say to you: For shame. For shame sir!

@Vader
I’m talking about this title:http://www.darkhorse.com/Comics/19-812/Star-Wars-1
It’s a must read for any SW fan imo.
I don’t think they’ve released a paperback of Vol 1 yet, but really, try to get a hold of this series if you can. The art is amazing and the story flows perfectly with the movie canon (even though this is technically still considered as part of the extended universe)

So i just watched the new The Thing(2011). Thought it was pretty good. I like how they tried to explain everything that you saw in the ’82 film. They tried to make it fresh which i think they slightly failed. It almost followed the same beats in some parts as the first film. Overall still a good film.

Also finished season 1 of Justified. I think Im liking it more than Breaking Bad. or at least i find it more entertaining. On to season 2!

I liked The Thing(2011) for what it was. When I first picked it up I thought it was a reboot. But finding it was a prequel was nice. I thought it was well acted and loved that they kept the special effects on par.

Saw Dark knight returns part 2 recently.. Ummm seriously.. Was that suppose to be good?? Is comic any different from animated movie? I watched it and I said.. ok.. this is interesting.. (spoiler alert)……………………… batman is now Iron man.. and then ……….(more spoiler alert).. at the end.. it’s just more green stuff… I mean.. Hello.. is this good? I didn’t think so.. Movie should not go into this direction AT all.(Beating superman w/ green stuff is just so freaking boring and so bad).

And oh.. please.. if movie folks at WB thinks that they can afford Bale, they will bring him back. It doesn’t matter what happened before or they said they will get a new batman.. it doesn’t matter.. if they can afford him, they will bring him back.

That is the only thing that makes sense. What I am not sure about is if Bale would do it if the story/script is crap. IF the reports of the offer are true, I would imagine he would want to see how the story would develop or risk being in a campy movie…although I imagine at this point WB is not going down that road again.

Not sure why Bale got so little money to play DKR? I guess he didn’t have a great contract? I think he deserves 50 million for next batman.(Maybe the reason why Mr.Bale is playing this game in public.. who knows)

I think he did OK for the Dark Knight Rises. $15 million is a lot of money and it seems like he liked working with Christopher Nolan. It looked like he took out the incentives for the Dark Knight Rises versus the Dark Knight just in case it bombed.

I think he should do a four picture deal for about 30 million + incentives and creative control plus WB agrees to back a pet project. That would cover the World’s Finest movie and three Justice League films then call it a day!

I know I keep talking about this but I am very surprised by Vampire Diaries. Just finished Season 2 and if you try to ignore the angst stuff, it could just be about people with superpowers.

And the soundtracks they use really calls to my emo side.

If you’re a guy, all the pretty women running around makes it easier to watch. But I have to say that I think Steve R. McQueen must have inherited something from his grandfather because he has the potential to be more than just a small screen actor. Maybe a Robin to #Batmanganiello.

Certain vees have magical talismans (rings, bracelets, necklaces) that allow them to daywalk. Then there are the first vampires, the Originals, who have none of those weaknesses (can walk in sunlight, can’t be staked). They are actually getting their own spin-off show.

There are witches (which allows for some plot hole patching) and werewolves (very limited, can only change during a full moon).

Like True Blood, vampire blood can heal humans… but if you die while v-blood is in your system, you turn into a vampire.

It’s interesting and there is an overarching subplot of a brothers-girl love triangle throughout time. The good thing is the story feels well built within each season and how they reveal the history of the characters is engaging.

Season 1 started slow and I believe it was Wally who said Season 2 was much better. The first 3 seasons are on Netflix so if you have absolutely nothing else to watch, you might want to check it out. At least I know how they can do some of those Flash scenes… hehe.

In fact, Dracula is the only vampire
I really do like and the modern iterations
don’t really get by blood flowing so to speak.

Let Me In was an interesting take on the genre.
Thanks for your insight on the original. I prefer
more implied to explicit when it comes to
the gruesome in horror films so the
first sounds less intriguing to me.

In my opinion, Let Me In has to be one of the best vampire films in the 2000s. Though, I’m not sure if that’s saying much since there hasn’t really been many solid vampire films. Either way, I thought Let Me In was awesome.

The movie went over budget, was suppose to be a chase scene which culminated in the destruction of Nosferatu. So, they decided to let the sun destroy him, as such he was a creature of the night, and we all know Day is the Opposite of Night.

The Vampire is an abomination against God, so the weakness was a Cross, Silver and Sun light.

Vampires are the Angels that sided with Lucifer with the War in Heaven. Cursed to walk the earth at night when humans sleep, as a punishment for their betrayal, they were given the aforementioned weaknesses, plus a Wooden Stake, not just any wooden stake, but the Stake made of the wood that Jesus was Crucified upon can kill them through the heart.

You referring to me or another Wally? Season 1 imo started off slow but was better than season 2. I thought 2nd season kinda dragged with the fellowship of the sun/Maryann plots. But the season picked up after Godric showed up & they returned to Bon Temps.

Seasons 3 & 4 were good but Season 5 was alittle let down that dragged since Season 2. Season 6 picked up the slack though.

When I was a child, I was a dreamer. I read comic books and I was the hero of the comic book. I saw movies and I was the hero in the movie. So every dream I ever dreamed has come true a hundred times. — Elvis Presley

While Elvis certainly is great, my favorite is Buddy Holly. I remember reading in a biography of his that Elvis came to Lubbock to perform in the fifties. (There’s a picture where Elvis is signing autographs, and to the side you can see Buddy standing there.) Supposedly, Buddy brought Elvis home for dinner. I would have loved to have been sitting at that table!

Meant to post here earlier (shame there’s no screenrant forum, or is there one?).

I wanted to ask you guys about the difference between an act and an omission. Best way I can explain what I mean is, say two persons Bob and Andy are by the train tracks. A train is coming and Bob pushes Andy in front of the tracks and the train hits him. Some would say this is an act.

Same scenario, but now Andy is standing in front of the train tracks and doesn’t realize a train is coming. Bob knows though and could easily shove him out of the way. But he chooses not to. Some would say this is an omission, or failure to act.

So I ask, do you think the two scenarios are the same? Is Bob equally morally culpable in either case?

The reason I ask this is because in Batman Begins, Bruce doesn’t save Ras. In MOS, Clark kills Zod. Batman could have saved him but chose not to. Were their actions sorta on the same level?